Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to
space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling …

Learning a second language (L2) presents a significant challenge to many people in
adulthood. Platforms for effective L2 instruction have been developed in both academia and …

Spoken language is an innate ability of the human being and represents the most
widespread mode of social communication. The ability to share concepts, intentions and …

Accumulating behavioral and neurophysiological evidence supports the idea of language
being grounded in sensorimotor processes, with indications of a functional role of motor …

Research points toward the role of children's fine motor skills (FMS) in reading development
but needs to better control for confounding variables and establish explanatory pathways …

Sociality influences both concrete and abstract concepts acquisition and representation, but
in different ways. Here we propose that sociality is crucial during the acquisition of abstract …

People engage in simulation when reading literary narratives. In this study, we tried to
pinpoint how different kinds of simulation (perceptual and motor simulation, mentalising) …

The cognitive foundations of geometry have puzzled academics for a long time, and even
today are mostly unknown to many scholars, including mathematical cognition researchers …

Postural changes and the maintenance of postural stability have been shown to affect many
aspects of cognition. Here we examined the extent to which selective visual attention may …

This study aimed to explore the development of mental rotation ability throughout life by
comparing different kinds of stimuli. Thirty-six children (6–9 years-old), 30 young (20–28 …